[Scpg] Thurs. JUNE 12 Permaculture Discussion Group in Santa Barbara and Upcoming Events
Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson
lakinroe at silcom.com
Tue Jun 10 05:54:23 PDT 2003
NEXT PERMACULTURE DISCUSSION GROUP in SB is THURS June 12 6:30pm
at Gail & Gary Milliken 510 Los Verdes Drive
This will be the ongoing interactive meeting showing videos covering many
parts of a lecture series on Permaculture Design by Bill Mollison one of
the founders of Permaculture , audio tapes, other Permaculture Videos,
slides and discussion each month. The meetings are free and open to folks
who want to study and learn more about Permaculture..
wes roe lakinroe at silcom.com
The idea is to have meetings at member houses the second Thursday of each
month This will allow us to see how to implement Permaculture Design at
each meeting site plus see video's and together further develop our
understandings of Permaculture Principles and Design.The meetings are free
and open to folks who want to study and learn more about Permaculture..
The seventh Video of Bill Mollison's Co founder of Permaculture Series be
show and discussed.
So if you would like to have a future meeting at your house contact Margie
Bushman sbpcnet at silcom.com 805-962-2571
Gail & Gary Milliken
510 Los Verdes Drive
From the Freeway:
Take the Turnpike exit and turn north toward the mountains. Turn right on
La Gama (first street after the Wake Center). Turn left at the tee onto Los
Verdes.
From Cathedral Oaks:
Turn south onto Turnpike. Take the second left onto La Gama. Turn left at
the tee onto Los Verdes.
Park anywhere on the grass.
Permaculture Discussion Group in Ojai Monthly Meeting OnGoing
Contact for monthly meetings Jodi Womack 805-646-4450 x2. Jodi at davidco.com
and DorothyWallstein<dwallstein at uncommonconsulting.com>
***** PLEASE NOTE A GREAT WAY TO SUPPORT THE SANTA BARBARA PERMACULTURE
NETWORK *****
Larry Santoyo of Earthflow is offering a 5% Discount on the Upcoming
Permaculture Design Courses offered in San Luis Obispo and Los Angeles CA
AND an additional 5% will be donated directly to the Santa Barbara
Permaculture Network!.. to help support more Programs in our region
This is a great way for those who want to take a Permaculture
Design Course to help support the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
Programs and learn about the fundamentals of Permaculture
Thanks Wes Roe and Margie Bushman Santa Barbara
Permaculture Network
ps see article from Hopedance Magazine on a Permaculture
Design Course in Ojai Ca 1997
FUTURE PERMACULTURE EVENTS IN OUR REGION
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-two week intensive -discounts and work-trades still available
"What Permaculturalists are doing is the most important activity that any
group is doing on the planet..."
Dr. David Suzuki, award winning scientist, educator and producer
Join us as we celebrate the 5 year anniversary of the Center of Natural
Design with the finest gatherings of veteran Permaculture Teachers and
Internationally Acclaimed Educators and Leaders in the Worldwide
Sustainability Movement!
Permaculture is the art and science that applies patterns found in nature
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JULY 13-26 2003 PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE: at the Center of Natural Design
Two Week Intensive, July 13-26, 2003
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TEACHING STAFF
The Center of Natural Design is proud to showcase a consortium of Friends,
Internationally Acclaimed Educators and Leaders in the Worldwide
Sustainability Movement, including:
Larry Santoyo, Designer/Director
the Center of Natural Design
Scott Pittman, Director
The Permaculture Institute
Penny Livingston-Stark, Director
Permaculture Institute of Northern California
Toby Hemenway, Author
Gaia's Garden: a Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
John Valenzuela, International Design Consultant
Dr. Bill Roley, Director
Permaculture Institute of Southern California
with:
Lois Arkin, Executive Director CRSP at L.A. EcoVillage
Joseph Kennedy, Editor, the Art of Natural Building
Jeff Oldham, Manager, Gaiam/RealGoods Design Group
Anna Marie Carter, the "Seed Lady" of Watts
Dr. Richard Smith, EarthActivist & EcoPsycologist
Linda Seeley, Deep Ecologist
and a growing list of other Very Special Guests...
SPECIALIZED CURRICULUM
This course has something for everyone... Curriculum includes inspiring
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The core curriculum includes chapters 1-14 of the Permaculture Designers'
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Building Techniques, Food-Forests, Fossil-less Fuels and Energy, Industrial
Ecology, Patterns of Human Dynamics & Community, Practicing Democracy,
MicroVillage Networks, EcoUrbanism and more...
Also Field Trips, Design Exercises, a variety of Hands-on Learning
Opportunities and the infamous Talent Show!
Each course is divided into 3 parts (of four days each). Successful
completion of all three parts entitles students to Certification and
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JULY 13-26, 2003 -two week intensive
PART 1: July 13-16
EcoLiteracy, Intro to Permaculture, Natural Patterns & More...
PART 2: July 18-21
Food, Water, Shelter, Sustainable Resource Management, Natural Building,
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Creating Community, Eco-Economics, EcoVillage Design & More...
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will feature "FlashPoint Pizzeria" an Earthen Oven Pizza Party...
TUITION & FEES:
$1550.00 for two week intensive" -register for all or part.
$550. per four day block
$155 per day
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OTHER TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
URBAN PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE: Los Angeles, California
EcoUrbanism and the Future of Sustainability
Six weekends Aug/Sept
Part 1: August 9-10 & August 16-17
Part 2: August 30-31 & September 6-7
Part 3: September 20-21 & September 27-28
SPACE IS LIMITED Don't miss this opportunity!
For Registration contact: Larry Santoyo
info at earthflow.com
800.469.5857 (message)
805.528.3763 (9-5 Pacific Standard Time)
see- www.earthflow.com
in cooperation with: The Center of Natural Design, the Terra Foundation &
EarthFlow Design Works
Here is an Article on a Permaculture Design Course that took place in Ojai
summer 1997 to get a feel of what an amazing level of co operation and
learning happens at a Course
taken from Permaculture "The Quiet Revolution" Hopedance Magazine #31 Issue
31 - November / December 2001
Permaculture Education & Certification:
A First Person Account
The land occupied by the Happy Valley
School and the Ojai Foundation has
a beauty
that comes from its unique location
in isolated
mountains near the relentless urban
sprawl of
Los Angeles. The beauty of the
upper Ojai
valley made it a logical selection
as the site of
the fictional Valley of Shangrila
in the 1939
film, The Lost Horizon. As I
arrived in Ojai's
upper valley on a late afternoon in
June,
hawks soared overhead and wisps of fog
slipped over the mountains in the
gathering
twilight. In the quiet of a Sunday
night, it was
apparent that the next two weeks of
permaculture study would take place
in an
ideal location.
On the top of a scenic ridge, the Ojai
Foundation land is covered with
California live
oaks. With the rustic ambiance of a
summer
camp, the Ojai Foundation is an
ideal place to
retreat from everyday life and to
focus on the
study of permaculture. Walking each
morning
down the hill to a large tent,
where the
permaculture lectures were held, was an
invigorating start for each day.
The evening
hikes back up the hill to the Ojai
Foundation
featured the nightly roll call of
coyotes and
skies filled with stars.
Beginning with the first day of
class, it was
clear that a permaculture design course
teaches more than a set syllabus of
material.
One of the first lessons we learned
was that
100 people, taken from their familiar
surroundings, could coalesce into a
community. When someone suggested the
idea of composting the food waste
from the
group's meals, a crew immediately
assembled to dig a compost pit.
Buffet meals,
eaten under ancient walnut trees,
became the
focal point for fascinating
conversations. A
realization quickly dawned that we
had all
been independently thinking many of the
same things regarding the need for
sustainable community, appropriate
technology and alternative
solutions to many
of the world's thornier problems.
Mealtime
conversations became one of the best
aspects of the permaculture design
course
experience.
The organizers of the course
utilized a variety
of appropriate technologies to provide
services for the course
participants. There
was an innovative form of air
conditioning that
included a large tube, with fans
pumping
cooler air out of a hole dug in the
ground. For
heating dish water, there was a
solar water
heater placed in a strategic
location. There
was also a shower set up, erected
for use by
the students who camped in tents.
The shower
stalls were made out of bales of
straw. After a
few days of the course, it was easy to
conclude that one could live
comfortably under
rustic conditions with appropriate
but minimal
equipment.
The founder of permaculture, Bill
Mollison,
lectured during many days of the
course.
Along with his humorous stories and
iconoclastic tall tales, Mollison
included many
pearls of wisdom on the subjects of
trees,
forests, water usage, domesticated
animals
and the perception of patterns in
landscapes.
His co-instructor Scott Pittman
brought a dry
wit and years of experience in the
design and
construction of adobe, cob and
strawbale
buildings. Pittman also taught the
class how to
dig the water-catching trenches
known as
"swales." Even though much has been
written,
including several textbooks, on the
subject of
permaculture, there was great
benefit in
learning about these topics
directly from
teachers with years of experience.
In addition to the formal classroom
lectures,
course participants received the
additional
benefit of learning from our peers
during
evening presentations. Each
evening, our
fellow students shared video tapes
and other
materials, with any interested
classmates.
Included in the evening programs were
lectures on community-supported
agriculture,
architectural applications of
fractal geometry,
eco-feminism, sustainable forestry,
inner-city
gardening projects, and a humorous, but
serious, video that depicted a
cross-country
car trip using discarded frying oil
instead of
diesel fuel. The various evening
programs
were informative and they
complemented the
material covered in the
permaculture course
curriculum.
After a week of lectures, we moved
out onto a
ridge at the Ojai Foundation. Armed
with
shovels, we learned the art of
digging swales.
The somewhat archaic word "swale"
refers to
the terracing of the hillsides for
the purpose of
capturing water run-off and avoiding
damaging erosion. With the use of
simple
leveling tools, made from bamboo and a
"plumb" line with a rock as a
weight, it was
possible to dig the swales while
following the
contours of the hillside slope.
Before we
ventured out to dig swales, we
learned that the
U.S. government, during the WPA
projects of
the 1930s, put in many large swales
in the
arid regions of the Western United
States.
These landforms may be seen today,
still
working correctly after nearly six
decades.
The culmination of the permaculture
design
course came when the students were
divided
into teams with the intention of
creating a
landscape design for use by the
organization
that owns the land of the Happy
Valley School
and Ojai Foundation. The land was
divided
into two sections, with four design
teams
focusing on each section. The
design teams
studied aspects of
gardening/agriculture,
water, physical structures, and the
invisible
structures of administration that
make the
other aspects of the design possible.
As individuals and as groups of design
teammates, we walked the land. In
our study,
we observed signs of water flow,
noted the
slope of hillsides and looked for
potential that
could be worked into the completed
permaculture design. After the
preliminary
observations were completed, each
design
team met to produce maps and reports on
their area of study. The result of
all of this
labor was a meeting for the entire
class in
which the teams presented their
completed
designs to the land's governing board.
After the lectures, design meetings
and other
activities, the permaculture course
came to a
close with a talent show. On the
last two nights
of the course, there were mandatory
talent
presentations by all of the course
participants.
These talent shows included diverse
performances such as the singing of
"Robbie
Barley and the Swalers," as well as a
dramatic peeling of an orange by an
organic
cotton farmer from Texas. The
talent shows
demonstrated the evolution of a
community
that came together for two weeks with a
common interest in permaculture's
ethics of
care of the earth and care of people.
Attending a permaculture design
course can
be a great opportunity to learn
useful skills, to
acquire unique information and to
renew a
commitment to integrate life and
work in the
service of permaculture's ideals.
by Susan
Newcomer
[reprinted from
www.crescentmeadow.com]
Central Coast Permaculture -ongoing -San Luis Obispo, Ca
Permaculture Fundamentals -classes First and Second Saturdays of each month.
Natural Building Techniques -classes on the Fourth Saturdays of each month.
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